PostSecret - en kunstinstallasjon

PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. PostSecret began as an art installation for Artomatic 2004 in Washington, D.C.

The simple concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions were (or are) made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams. Since Frank Warren created the website on January 1, 2005, PostSecret has collected and displayed upwards of 2,500 original pieces of art from people across the United States and around the world.
The site, which started as an experiment on Blogspot, is updated every Sunday with approximately 20 new pieces which share a relatively constant style, giving all "artists" who participate some guidelines on how their secrets should be represented.

In October 2007, the PostSecret Community was launched (www.postsecretcommunity.com). Since its inception, more than 39,000 people have registered for the online discussion forum. According to Youth Trends' February 2008 "Top Ten List Report" PostSecret was the 10th most popular site amongst female students in the USA, with 7% of those polled naming the site as their favorite. [1]
Sunday, August 12, 2007 constituted a break of sorts. In lieu of posting standard secrets, Frank posted the link to a video he had uploaded to YouTube [2] entitled "New PostSecret Mini-Movie", expressing his feelings about the project and promising that the next week would bring more secrets [3]
In the sixth annual Weblog Awards, the PostSecret website received five Bloggies in 2006: Best American Weblog, Best Topical Weblog, Best Community Weblog, Best New Weblog, and Weblog of the Year.
In the seventh annual Weblog Awards, the PostSecret website received Weblog of the Year for 2007.
[edit] Books
Selected postcards, including some not on the website, were published in PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (ISBN 0-06-089919-0). It was published by Harper Collins/Regan Books and released on December 1, 2005.
A second PostSecret book, My Secret: A PostSecret Book (ISBN 0-06-119668-1), was released on October 24, 2006. It is also published by Regan Books.
A third PostSecret book, The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book (ISBN 0-06-119875-7), was released on January 9, 2007.
A fourth PostSecret book, A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book (ISBN 0-06-123860-0), was released on October 9, 2007.
Instead of sending in their secrets, many people take their postcards to a bookstore and discreetly hide them between the pages of a PostSecret book. This spin-off activity means that the eventual purchaser of the book gets an unexpected secret to keep.[citation needed]
Frank Warren has stated that he includes a secret of his own in each of the PostSecret books.[citation needed]
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[edit] Historical analogues
The 1973 book Variable Piece 4: Secrets by the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler (one of many works in his Variable Piece series) was a compilation of nearly 1800 secrets written down by random people.
[edit] External links

Wikinews has related news:
Interview with Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret
PostSecret
Exclusive Interview With Frank Warren on Orato.com
Frank Warren Ubben Lecture at DePauw University
PostSecret promotional video
HarperCollins Publishers: PostSecret by Frank Warren
20 Questions with Frank Warren
Frank Warren Book Signing Photos, Austin, TX
Video Interview With Frank Warren
Audio interview with Frank Warren from alt.NPR's Love & Radio
A Conversation with Frank Warren in MungBeing Magazine
Warren Interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Collaborative mail/art projects at the Open Directory Project
PostSecretFrance
PostSecret auf Deutsch
PostSecret at Greece
[edit] References
^ "Student Noses Buried in Facebooks", eMarketer.com (2008-02-26). Retrieved on 2008-02-25.
^ The PostSecret Mini-Movie
^ postsecret.blogspot.com, August 12, 2007
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